Nice take on it.
"happy accident"
Have you been listening to Bob Ross again?
Life is a work of art. The universe is a work of art.
As a hobby artist, I agree. Perhaps God is more creative than we give him credit for. Looking at the diversity of lifeforms alone, leads one to observe an obvious aesthetic achievement, in species' form.
Whether God actually plants the seeds of diversity - who knows. But artistically, I find a cat creatively brilliant, as I do a horse, and the difference between species, is amazing, to a visualist.